Day Two Materials Assembled country bins Old newspaper or tablecloths Country packets in envelopes Energy resource cards (set aside) Job Descriptions and Actions master, page 11 Geologist Map, page 58 International Trade Center sign, page 60 (optional) Game boards, pages 61-62 (optional)
2Preparation Place students into their groups again and review the activities and discussion that took place in the last session. Make a copy of the Geologist Map for each group. Prepare game boards, signs, and masters as needed.
Classroom Management Tip: Depending on how you conduct the game, it may be necessary to instruct the geologists and miners to work on reclaiming their land simultaneously with the trading rounds so that all students feel busy during the entirety of the game. It may also be helpful to add a step where each geologist and miner need to inspect other countries’ reclamation efforts to make sure these jobs are done satisfactorily.
Procedure 1. Redistribute the country packets to the student groups. 2. Have the students discuss in their groups what they learned about their country on Day One. Place the country bins at the International Trade Center for distribution later in the game. 3. Using the Job Descriptions and Actions master, have the students recall the job they chose and review and discuss the different roles. 4. Have the economic advisors sort the industry, technology, and workforce cards from their country packet, and organize them on the game boards. If you are not using the game boards, have the students place the cards into three rows. Tell students they will get their energy resource cards upon the completion of mining. Set these pieces aside and only distribute them to teams after they have mined all the resources for their country. 5. Call the geologists and miners to the International Trade Center to collect their country’s bin and old newspaper or tablecloth. Provide each group with a Geologist Map. Give them the following instructions: GEOLOGISTS: Observe the plot of land and make a sketch of the landscape on the map, labeling any hills or changes in the landscape. The large rocks represent hills and the sticks represent valleys. Use the straws to probe the soil for energy resources buried there, then mark on the map the location of any energy resources you find. MINERS: Carefully remove the earth layer by layer, and set each layer aside on the newspaper or tablecloth. Use the geologist map to locate the energy resources. When you find the energy resources, bring them to the facilitator and exchange them for energy resource cards. Return the energy resources to the bin and give the cards to your economic advisor. As the traders and advisors do their jobs, you must work with the geologists to restore the plot of land. 6. Advise the economic advisors and international traders to prepare for the trading rounds. Give them the following instructions: ECONOMIC ADVISORS: Develop a strategy to allow your team to end up with exactly five of each of the commodity cards. Decide what needs to be bought and how much the team is willing to pay for it, and what needs to be sold and at what price. INTERNATIONAL TRADERS: Use the economic advisor’s strategy and your ability to negotiate to obtain the commodities your country needs and trade the commodities you don’t need during the trading rounds.
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